What is behavioral medicine?

Integrative field: "behavioral medicine is the interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge and techniques relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation." --society of behavioral medicine.

Behavioral Medicine: Behavioral medicine is often associated with psychological issues but it can be utilized for any health condition or, even better, to maintain wellness. Such interventions can include stress management, clinical hypnosis, creating a schedule for food intake, exercise, etc. A clinical health psychologist can help you do that and his/her advice will be supported by research. The very best to you.

To help people deal: Many physical problems cannot be cured, and behavioral medicine can help people to deal with these problems in a healthy way.

Chronic pain: Behavioral medicine has been shown repeatedly to help people who have chronic pain. Some methods include visualization therapy, relaxation therapy, biofeedback and something called cognitive restructuring which seeks to alter some fixed beliefs about chronic pain. It is unfortunate that it is not used more. It takes a while to learn and sometimes insurance companies will not cover it

Behavioral medicine: A cornerstone of behavioral medicine is evaluating the interplay between physiological and psychological factors that influence health outcomes. This is an underestimated and often under evaluated component of whole health care.